Rendering Major Core Changes to the LightWave Rendering Engine
Adaptive Subdivision
Node Editor
Node based Displacement
Advanced Camera Tools
Timewarp
CCTV
HV Deformer
Stress Map
Sketch
Dissolve Ray
Z-buffer improvements
Realistic Fog
“Unaffected by Object” Alpha Channel mode
Dynamics Improvements
ParticleFX Improvements
Hypervoxels Improvements
IK Booster
Pixie Dust
Character Animation
Relativity 2
Sticky
Proximity
Quaternion Rotations
Align to Path
User Interface and Workflow Improvement
Mesh Editing
List Manager
OpenGL Improvements
UI Configuration
Visor
File Format Support: Tiff importer
Configuration Files
Layout General and Display Options Redesigned
New Render Status Panel
Render Globals
Deformation Evaluation Order Controls
Load-From-Scene System Redesigned
Scene Loading
Modeler
Redesigned Subdivision Surface Core Engine
Implementation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision
Surfaces in Modele
Edge Selection (throughout Modeler)
Edge Weights
Multishift now operates across multiple layers
New Modeler Tools
Center Pivot
G-Toggle
Set Sharpness
Multishift
New Scripts
Flip it/ Flip it fast
Absolute Measure
CutSwapPaste/CopySwapPaste
Mirror X/ Mirror Y/ Mirror Z
LightWave Full with PDF Manual
This product is shipped in a dual-disk case with the following:
LightWave v9 Program Disk (32-bit PC, 32-bit Mac, and 64-bit PC)
LightWave v9 3rd-Party Sampler/Content DVD (3rd-Party Samplers, New Content, Hi-Res PDF Manuals, Demo Videos)
Mac/PC USB Dongle
Character Animation